{"id":84752,"date":"2019-05-31T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T10:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2021-09-08T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:50:32","slug":"snakebite-cases-in-telangana-down-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/snakebite-cases-in-telangana-down-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakebite cases in Telangana down by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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  1. According to government sources, the number of snake bite cases in Telangana from January to first week of May in 2019 is 50% to 70% less than first five months of 2017 and 2018. Underreporting is suspected as a reason for the drop in cases.<\/li>\r\n
  2. Recently, the World Health Organisation unveiled \u201cSnakebite Envenoming: A strategy for prevention and control\u201d. The strategy targets reducing disabilities and deaths due to snakebites by 50% by 2030.<\/li>\r\n
  3. The strategy is based on four pillars: a) empower and engage communities, b) ensure safe and effective treatment, c) strengthen health systems and d) increase coordination, partnership and resources.<\/li>\r\n
  4. The WHO strategy seeks to reduce snakebite deaths and disabilities through a) ensuring access to treatment such as anti-venoms and ancillary medical care by increasing the number of manufacturers by 25% and creating a global antivenom stockpile and b) encouraging research on new treatments, diagnostics and health device breakthroughs.<\/li>\r\n
  5. In 2017, WHO had formally categorised \u201csnakebite envenoming\u201d as a Neglected Tropical Disease.<\/li>\r\n
  6. Snake bite affects 1.8\u20132.7 million people each year. It is a neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.<\/li>\r\n
  7. Further, most deaths and serious consequences from snake bites are entirely preventable by making High quality snake antivenoms accessible. They are included in the WHO List of essential medicines.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    According to government sources, the number of snake bite cases in Telangana from January to first week of May in 2019 is 50% to 70% less than first five months of 2017 and 2018. Underreporting is suspected as a reason for the drop in cases. Recently, the World Health Organisation unveiled \u201cSnakebite Envenoming: A strategy… Continue reading Snakebite cases in Telangana down by 50%<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1838,1839],"class_list":["post-84752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-snake-bite","tag-snakebite-envenoming","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775900,"cached_date":1704827396},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}